Literary Theory : An Anthology

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This anthology of classic and cutting-edge statements in literary theory has now been updated to include recent influential texts in the areas of Ethnic Studies, Postcolonialism and International Studies. A definitive collection of classic statements in criticism and new theoretical work from the past few decades. All the major schools and methods that make up the dynamic field of literary theory are represented, from Formalism to Postcolonialism. Enables students to familiarise themselves with the most recent developments in literary theory and with the traditions from which these new theories derive.

Julie Rivkin is Professor at Connecticut College, where she teaches courses in American Literature, Contemporary Women Writers, and Literary Theory. She is the author of False Positions: The Representational Logics of Henry James's Fiction (1996).

Michael Ryan is Professor of English at Northeastern University, where he teaches courses in American Literature and Culture, American Film, and Literary Theory.

Preface

ix

Preface to the Second Edition

xii

Acknowledgments

xiii

Part One Formalisms: Russian Formalism and New Criticism

Introduction: Formalisms

3

(4)

Julie Rivkin

Michael Ryan

The Formal Method

7

(8)

Boris Eichenbaum

Art as Technique

15

(7)

Viktor Shklovsky

The Formalist Critics

22

(6)

Cleanth Brooks

The Language of Paradox

28

(12)

Cleanth Brooks

The Structure of the Concrete Universal

40

(13)

W. K. Wimsatt Jr.

Part Two Structuralism, Linguistics, Narratology

Introduction: The Implied Order: Structuralism

53

(3)

Julie Rivkin

Michael Ryan

The Linguistic Foundation

56

(3)

Jonathan Culler

Course in General Linguistics

59

(13)

Ferdinand de Saussure

Morphology of the Folk-tale

72

(4)

Vladimir Propp

Two Aspects of Language

76

(5)

Roman Jakobson

Mythologies

81

(9)

Roland Barthes

The Archaeology of Knowledge

90

(7)

Michel Foucault

The Structure of Narrative Transmission

97

(30)

Seymour Chatman

Part Three Rhetoric, Phenomenology, Reader Response

Introduction: Language and Action

127

(4)

Julie Rivkin

Michael Ryan

Transcendental Aesthetic

131

(6)

Immanuel Kant

Ideas

137

(5)

Edmund Husserl

Classical Rhetoric

142

(20)

Edward P. J. Corbett

How To Do Things With Words

162

(15)

J. L. Austin

Tacit Persuasion Patterns and A Dictionary of Rhetorical Terms

177

(18)

Richard Lanham

Not so much a Teaching as an Intangling

195

(22)

Stanley Fish

Interpretive Communities

217

(5)

Stanley Fish

Text and System

222

(15)

John Frow

Distinction

237

(20)

Pierre Bourdieu

Part Four Post-structuralism, Deconstruction, Post-modernism

Introduction: Introductory Deconstruction

257

(5)

Julie Rivkin

Michael Ryan

On Truth and Lying in an Extra-moral Sense

262

(4)

Friedrich Nietzsche

The Will to Power

266

(5)

Friedrich Nietzsche

Identity and Difference

271

(2)

Martin Heidegger

Heterology

273

(5)

Georges Bataille

Differance

278

(22)

Jacques Derrida

Of Grammatology

300

(32)

Jacques Derrida

Semiology and Grammatology

332

(8)

Jacques Derrida

Writing

340

(8)

Barbara Johnson

The Newly Born Woman

348

(7)

Helene Cixous

The Postmodern Condition

355

(10)

Jean-Francois Lyotard

Simulacra and Simulations

365

(13)

Jean Baudrillard

A Thousand Plateaus

378

(11)

Gilles Deleuze

Felix Guattari

Part Five Psychoanalysis and Psychology

Introduction: Strangers to Ourselves: Psychoanalysis

389

(8)

Julie Rivkin

Michael Ryan

The Interpretation of Dreams

397

(18)

Sigmund Freud

On Narcissism

415

(3)

Sigmund Freud

The Uncanny

418

(13)

Sigmund Freud

Beyond the Pleasure Principle

431

(7)

Sigmund Freud

Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego

438

(3)

Sigmund Freud

The Mirror Stage as Formative of the Function of the I

441

(6)

Jacques Lacan

The Instance of the Letter in the Unconscious

447

(15)

Jacques Lacan

The Negro and Psychopathology

462

(8)

Frantz Fanon

Pre-Oedipal Gender Configurations

470

(17)

Nancy Chodorow

The Black Hole of Trauma

487

(18)

Bessel A. van der Kolk

Alexander C. McFarlane

Part Six Historicisms

Introduction: Writing the Past

505

(3)

Julie Rivkin

Michael Ryan

The Country and the City

508

(25)

Raymond Williams

Witness Against the Beast

533

(16)

E. P. Thompson

Discipline and Punish

549

(18)

Michel Foucault

Some Call it Fiction: On the Politics of Domesticity

567

(17)

Nancy Armstrong

Professing the Renaissance: The Poetics and Politics of Culture

584

(8)

Louis Montrose

Shakespeare and the Exorcists

592

(29)

Stephen Greenblatt

Melville, Delany, and New World Slavery

621

(22)

Eric Sundquist

Part Seven Political Criticism: From Marxism to Cultural Materialism

Introduction: Starting with Zero

643

(4)

Julie Rivkin

Michael Ryan

Dialectics

647

(3)

G. W. F. Hegel

Grundrisse

650

(3)

Karl Marx

The German Ideology

653

(6)

Karl Marx

Wage Labor and Capital

659

(6)

Karl Marx

Capital

665

(8)

Karl Marx

Hegemony

673

(1)

Antonio Gramsci

Discourse in the Novel

674

(12)

Mikhail Bakhtin

Rabelais and his World

686

(7)

Mikhail Bakhtin

Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses

693

(10)

Louis Althusser

For a Theory of Literary Production

703

(9)

Pierre Macherey

The Sublime Object of Ideology

712

(13)

Slavoj Zizek

Difference and the Future

725

(18)

Antonio Negri

Cultural Materialism, Othello, and the Politics of Plausibility

743

(22)

Alan Sinfield

Part Eight Feminism

Introduction: Feminist Paradigms

765

(5)

Julie Rivkin

Michael Ryan

The Traffic in Women

770

(25)

Gayle Rubin

The Power of Discourse and the Subordination of the Feminine

795

(4)

Luce Irigaray

Women on the Market

799

(13)

Luce Irigaray

The Madwoman in the Attic

812

(14)

Sandra Gilbert

Susan Gubar

The Hand That Rocks the Cradle

826

(12)

Coppelia Kahn

Three Women's Texts and a Critique of Imperialism

838

(16)

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference

854

(7)

Audre Lorde

``A Great Way to Fly'': Nationalism, the State, and the Varieties of Third-World Feminism

861

(24)

Geraldine Heng

Part Nine Gender Studies

Introduction: Contingencies of Gender

885

(4)

Julie Rivkin

Michael Ryan

Sexual Transformations

889

(3)

Gayle Rubin

The History of Sexuality

892

(8)

Michel Foucault

Performative Acts and Gender Constitution

900

(12)

Judith Butler

Epistemology of the Closet

912

(10)

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

A Small Boy and Others: Sexual Disorientation in Henry James, Kenneth Anger, and David Lynch

922

(13)

Michael Moon

Female Masculinity

935

(24)

Judith Halberstam

Part Ten Ethnic Literary and Cultural Studies, Critical Race Theory

Introduction: Situating Race

959

(5)

Julie Rivkin

Michael Ryan

The Social Construction of Race

964

(11)

Ian F. Haney Lopez

Interrogating ``Whiteness''

975

(12)

Shelley Fisher Fishkin

The Blackness of Blackness: A Critique of the Sign and the Signifying Monkey